Template-free Data-to-Text Generation of Finnish Sports News
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Nordic Conference of Computational Linguistics(2019)External Links:
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The development of a corpus of Finnish ice hockey news, edited to be suitable for training of end-to-end news generation methods, is reported on and generation of text is demonstrated, which was judged by journalists to be relatively close to a viable product.
Abstract
News articles such as sports game reports are often thought to closely follow the underlying game statistics, but in practice they contain a notable amount of background knowledge, interpretation, insight into the game, and quotes that are not present in the official statistics. This poses a challenge for automated data-to-text news generation with real-world news corpora as training data. We report on the development of a corpus of Finnish ice hockey news, edited to be suitable for training of end-to-end news generation methods, as well as demonstrate generation of text, which was judged by journalists to be relatively close to a viable product. The new dataset and system source code are available for research purposes.
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